Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

The newborn infant is now seen to be wired with awesome precision... This marvelous robot will be launched into the world under the care of its parents... But to what extent does the wiring of the neurons, so undeniably encoded in the genes, preordain the directions that social development will follow?

For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.

This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms - folded them into its genes - and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady.

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.

The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper